Your Computer Is Smarter Than Your Doctor
Screw Deep Blue, the computer on which you're reading this blog post can diagnose Alzheimer's–better than a doctor.
From a new study in the scientific journal Brain.
Experts taught a standard computer how to diagnose Alzheimer's from brain scans, and got a 96% success rate.
The accuracy of diagnosis from standard scans, blood tests and interviews carried out by a clinician is 85%.
